Dr. Michelle Henry Barton is a 1985 graduate from the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois. She completed a Large Animal Internship at North Carolina State University and then a four year combined Large Animal Internal Medicine Residency and PhD in Physiology at the University of Georgia.

Dr. Barton has remained at UGA and is the Fuller E. Callaway Endowed Chair and a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor. She has served the ACVIM as the Specialty President for Large Animal Internal Medicine and as their Ombudsman.